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Dave Rogers and Lepha McCartan ran the the Dark Peaks trail Ultra Marathon on Saturday the 2nd December in 6:08. The Marathon started in the village of Langsett, Sheffield in which runners had to self-navigate through scenic and challenging forest trails in the Peak District National Park, with over 4000 ft elevations.

In Victoria Park, East London, Gareth Wilkes ran the half marathon in 1:59.

The Nottingham marathon was attended by Ingrid Harris who completed the race in 3:33, Karen Galpin 3:36, Allan Green 4:14, all three runners came first in their age categories. Also in Nottingham, John Galpin ran the half marathon completing the race in 2:12 dressed as Spider-Man.

Parkrun tourist saw Robert Foord taking part in the Harcourt Hill parkrun.

Locally in Cheltenham, Mark Strojonov took part in the Santa Cheltenham 3 km fun run, achieving a worthy 21:28.

On Saturday 25th November the 250th Cheltenham parkrun took place with members of Almost Athletes providing many of the volunteers and participants. Despite the cold and frosty conditions 422 runners completed the run and two Almosts finished in the top twenty – Simon Jarvis was in 8th position with a time of 18mins 50secs whilst Matt Polson came 15th with 19.22. The first Almost lady to complete was Jeanette Gullick with a time of 21.45.

Parkrun tourists this week included Norm Lever at Lytham Hall in Lancashire, Helen Fursman Reid in Bushy and Natalie Greening in Ipswich. Alison and Rob Hume travelled abroad to Copenhagen to take part in an even colder Amagerstrandpark parkrun.

Allan Green continued to add to his impressive marathon tally by running on Friday 24th in the Samphire Hoe event in Kent, and achieved a finish time of 4hrs 49mins. On Sunday, Ingrid Harris completed the Colwall Hare and Tortoise off-road marathon in just 3hrs 50mins, whilst Vasco and Joanna Barreto ran in the Downton half marathon in the New Forest in 1hr 39mins and 1hr 48mins respectively.

A large number of Almosts took part in the Gloucester 10km on Sunday morning. Despite some technical problems with chip timings, the official results highlighted some excellent performances by club members. Dale Midwinter was the first male Almost to complete in 40mins 21secs, whilst Lesley Cottle was the first Almost lady to finish in 51.59. Peter Blakeman achieved a new PB with a time of 46mins 35secs, as did Jayne Murphy who was guided by Mark Medland to finish in 56.42. Rita Crane completed her first 10km race in 1hr 10mins.

The following members all completed the race in less than 50 minutes: Ben Taylor in 40mins 33secs, Jamie Courtenay in 43.13, Mike Bryce in 43.21, Jason Bliss in 43.33, John Jameson in 45.19, Mike Harris in 47.02 and Andrew Ackerman in 48.45. Other participants included Patrick Meyer who finished in 51mins 41secs, Lepha McCartan in 53.39, Suzanne Hills in 55.04, Julia Whittaker in 56.44, Charlotte Jamieson in 58.15, Adrian Courtenay in 59.00, Sweetchilli Wan in 1hr 50secs, Leigh Spencer in 1hr 09mins and Zakia Shahanaz Hussain in 1.16.